Chart: Voter Fraud is Rare

[ProSense]

From the DNC's Protecting the Vote site.


This week in the War on Voting: New Hampshire target of right-wing voter fraud conspiracy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/14/1054544/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Voting:-New-Hampshire-target-of-right-wing-voter-fraud 

[yardwork]

1. Good chart to post. All this hysteria about voter fraud is actually voter suppression.

The Republicans know that they can't win if a majority of ordinary people actually vote. Keeping as many people from voting as possible is their #1 reelection strategy.

That and outright theft of elections, as happened in 2000, 2002, and 2004, at least.

[HopeHoops]

2. Does that account for the O'Keefe criminals?

[caraher]

7. Nope

Chart says it's for 2000-2007. O'Keefe and his band of criminals have probably doubled the count...

[HopeHoops]

8. Yeah, I thought they had more than nine cases on their OWN from the NH primary.

[Bill USA]

3. recommended!

This is another little item the Corporate media do scant reporting on. the tiny amount of voter fraud vs the multi-state vote- suppression - voter intimidation campaign being prosecuted by the Red State Brigade.

[TexasProgresive]

4. Actually it's not rare-well that kind is

I contend that intimidating qualified voters into not voting, denying citizens the ability to register to vote and so forth is fraud-because an election where some citizens are not allowed to vote is FRAUD.

[ProSense]

5. That's

"Actually it's not rare-well that kind is...I contend that intimidating qualified voters into not voting, denying citizens the ability to register to vote and so forth is fraud-because an election where some citizens are not allowed to vote is FRAUD. "

...not voter fraud, which implies that voters are doing something illegal. Election fraud is intimidating voters and using other illegal tactics to suppress the vote.

[TexasProgresive]

6. I contend while it might not meet the legal definiton of election fraud

Suppressing the vote of citizens makes for a fraudulent election. The only people I know of that work hard to suppress voters are r'pukes.

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R